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Category: gParted Size: 51.87 MB Status: 16 seeders and 3 leechers Added: 2007-02-17 18:14:56

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Category: Mepis Size: 675.53 MB Status: 2 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-02-17 04:52:30

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Category: sidux Size: 400.66 MB Status: 6 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-02-17 02:35:03

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Category: UserLinux Size: 559.53 MB Status: 5 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-02-17 02:27:33

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Puppy Linux 2.14 has been released: "This new Puppy has major improvements in the underlying architecture as well as the applications, and some new applets created by Puppy enthusiasts. Finally we have embraced the XDG menu system, our new PET package management system is further refined. New applets .

Source: Linux Today

FIC has announced an on-sale date for its Neo1973, expected to be the first low-cost, high-volume phone with a user-modifiable Linux-based operating system

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Now that the companies have talked the talk, can they walk the walk ?

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'From one perspective, Sun has been engaged in a dramatic turnaround in recent years by opening up its Solaris operating system and now the Java language "

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Today, a Russian judge dismissed the Microsoft piracy case against school principal Alexander Ponosov

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Identity management is the bane of IT administrators' existence if they're presiding over heterogeneous Windows and Linux environments

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The BBC has a long and glorious past as a technological innovator. Throughout the history of broadcasting, it has often been the first to develop and promote new technologies

Source: Linux Today

Perhaps the most significant news this week was Microsoft's decision to escalate the air wars by sending IBM a valentine, in the form of an open letter posted on February 14 at the Microsoft Interoperability Web page

Source: Linux Today

Here's a marketing challenge: What do you do when you're trying to put a fresh look on a 20-year-old e-mail system? Well, if you're IBM, you start calling it 'Open Client' you hype it as being Linux-related

Source: Linux Today

Much has been said of Novell's patent deal with Microsoft. And in much of that, Novell is being accused of creating a fork in the Linux line

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Let's be clear, Linux really isn't the most lucrative platform on the market. It goes on the least expensive hardware, and much of what goes into it appears subsidized by other revenue streams

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It comes, quite bluntly, to this: however hardware vendors feel about the excitement surrounding Linux, there is currently not a single compelling business argument for them to shift their products to open source. None

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Several vendors took advantage of the limelight cast by the LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit this week to announce a series of products and services

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Xandros, a company best known until now for its Linux desktop, will soon follow up on this week's announcement of BridgeWays software for Linux/Windows/Unix management with a new virtualization-enabled enterprise server

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Red Hat Inc. has scheduled a March release for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, the latest version of its open-source operating system, while it tries to fend off new competitive threats from Oracle Corp. and the Microsoft Corp.-Novell Inc. partnership

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"The popularity of OpenOffice, the open source productivity suite, will be key to the financial success of Novell " [Flash video included.]

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This is release 0.9.31 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix

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prostoalex writes "It's a big victory for Richard Stallman in North America, as Cuba decided to adopt open source software on the national level. Both Cuba and Venezuela are currently working on switching the entire government infrastructure to GNU/Linux operating system and applications, the Associated Press reports from Havana: 'Both governments say they are trying to wean state agencies from Microsoft's proprietary Windows to the open-source Linux operating system, which is developed by a global community of programmers who freely share their code.' The AP article doesn't mention the distro used for government workers, but says that the students are working on a Gentoo-based distro."

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lisah writes "The flame wars between Linus Torvalds and the GNOME community continue to burn. Responding to Torvalds' recent claim that GNOME 'seems to be developed by interface Nazis' and that its developers believe their 'users are idiots,' a member of the Linux Foundation's Desktop Architects mailing list suggested that Torvalds use GNOME for a month before making such pronouncements. Torvalds, never one to back down from a challenge, simply turned around and submitted patches to GNOME and then told the list, ' let's see what happens to my patches. I guarantee you that they actually improve the code.' After lobbing that over the fence, Torvalds concluded his comments by saying, 'Now the question is, will people take the patches, or will they keep their heads up their arses and claim that configurability is bad, even when it makes things more logical, and code more readable.'" Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.

Source: Linux DevCenter

Not everyone in the world of free and open source software praised Greg Kroah-Hartman’s Free Linux Driver Development! offer (and see his later clarification in Free Linux Driver Development Questions and Answers!). Specifically, the OpenBSD project criticized the offer to work on free drivers under NDA.


As I argued in Pragmatic Questions about Binary-Only Drivers, open specifications are more valuable than even unencumbered source code from a hardware manufacturer. Drivers developed under NDA introduce a maintenance risk–what if the developer under NDA cannot or will not continue to maintain the driver? Reverse engineering the code may be less difficult than reverse engineering hardware alone, but NDAs do (deliberately!) lock up important knowledge.

Some of that knowledge may be more than important to supporting that hardware on free and open systems. It might be necessary.

I fail to accept most of the common apologies for driver NDAs, as well. The real, long-term, pragmatic solution is to remove the possibility of using anti-competitive weapons as a normal part of doing business.

Perhaps writing drivers under NDA is a workable short-term step to important hardware support. Yet it’s not the end goal, and technical evangelism and pressure should not stop there.